Artful Connections: Using Virtual Museum Tours as a Keystone for an Online Community of Practice of K-12 Art Teachers.

PROCEEDINGS

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, October 2006
in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
ISBN 978-1-880094-60-0
Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), San Diego, CA

Abstract

Abstract: This paper describes Artful Connections, a Smithsonian American Art Museum project that provides virtual museum tours to Department of Defense Education Activity visual arts students. DoDEA visual arts teachers are located around the world and isolated from each other, making it difficult to share ideas and best practice. The paper introduces Community of Practice literature and recognized principles in this practice. It then describes an emergent CoP that has been incorporated into Artful Connections.

Citation

Dowling, S. (2006). Artful Connections: Using Virtual Museum Tours as a Keystone for an Online Community of Practice of K-12 Art Teachers. In T. Reeves & S. Yamashita (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2006--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 497-502). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved September 15, 2019 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/23736/.

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